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While I certainly don't agree with what the newspaper did - I think the title of this thread is a bit disingenuous.
If I want someone's address - and I know their name and state ~ I'm only two mouse clicks away from obtaining it.
I was thinking the same thing. It's not as if government secrets were leaked. But I don't like any published "list of people who..." with names and addresses because, while it may be public info, weirdos who may not otherwise have thought about it can be sparked into action by such a thing. We have way too many obsessive, compulsive, irrational, people to be playing fast and free with lists such as this. I feel the same way about lists of people who have committed crimes as well so it's not that I care about gun owners particularly.
That information was public even before the newspaper publicized it. If someone wanted to find it they could have easily found it. Plenty of websites will give you much more info, try Spokeo
There are people who try and take steps to hide from people. For example, someone who had to take a restraining order out. I don't know if they would have even thought of their gun registration info being out there. I'd be pissed.
The gun owners whose addresses were published should sue the Journal for relocation expenses. Then, the Journal should report that the previously listed gun owners have all moved and no longer reside at the published addresses.
personally i think the paper should be sued into oblivion, and the laws changed to prevent this from EVER happening again.
My best guess is that the cons are all mouth and are not stupid enough to go to a house they KNOW is armed.. Even most criminals aren't that stupid...
Might want to do a bit more research on that one. From what I've been reading about things like robberies and home invasions, it doesn't take a very high IQ to be a criminal. Some of them have been sent up for extremely stupid errors in judgement, aside that of committing the crime in the first place.
Now the prison inmates are walking up to prison guards and reciting the guards' exact home address to them. They got the addresses, from the newspaper's published map of gun owner permits
Good job, Rockland Journal News.
You won't need police protection any time soon, will you, newpapers people? Cops may be too busy guarding their own homes against recently-released criminals, to respond to your calls. I know I would be.
Criticism of The Journal News, which published a gun permit database last month, broadened Friday with Rockland law enforcement officials saying the map listing the names and addresses of those with gun permits is endangering lives.
Inmates at the Rockland County jail are taunting corrections officers by saying they know the guards' home addresses -- information they got from the list published by Westchester-based newspaper, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said.
"Since about 9:30 this morning, I've been in a meeting with my corrections officers and their unions. They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That's not acceptable to me," Falco said at a news conference Friday morning in New City, where local leaders condemned the list.
Falco, along with other supporting police chiefs and county legislators, wants the paper to remove the information from its website.
You can look up just about anybody on the internet anyway. And many people are still in the phone book.
You want to know something "fun-nee", there was once a natural right called "privacy".
And governments were actually delegated power to help you secure that right.
Who would've thunk it.
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